Commentary

The 75th NATO Summit in Washington concluded with the endorsement of the Ukraine Compact. This document serves as a supplement to the Joint G7 Declaration agreed upon a year ago at the previous NATO Summit in Vilnius. In total, 32 participants have already joined it, all of whom were present today, including 23 leaders of countries with which Ukraine has signed bilateral security agreements...

It has come to our attention that reportedly a presentation on "VYSHYVANKA DAY" in Canada’s Parliament by a young Ukrainian woman, Lesia Voroniuk, was abruptly cancelled. The purported reason given was that among notable Ukrainians, who also wore as part of their attire an embroidered shirt, was Stepan Bandera, and whose shirt was recreated as part of a general project -- " Embroidery in the attire of notable Ukrainians". A REMINDER: Stepan Bandera was a political leader of the Ukrainian National Resistance against Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent almost 4 years in a Nazi concentration camp and was assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1959...

The twenty-seventh month of the war was marked by the invasion of Russian troops into the territory of the Kharkiv region, the trip of the Kremlin satrap to the Beijing Bogdykhan, the resignation of Shoigu and a blow to two of Putin’s allies – in Slovakia and Iran. The increase in military assistance to Ukraine from the West is traditionally accompanied by the whining of those who like to preserve “Putin’s face,” and the strengthening of the real, armed opposition, is accompanied by a discussion of its (the opposition’s) moral qualities. The next “inauguration” of the Dresden resident, which took place on 7 May, demonstrated that the neo-Soviet nomenclature was determined to hold on to power. The general mood was guessed by the operative in a cassock, Vladimir Gundyaev (call sign “Kirill”), who...

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) urgently appeals to the governments of democratic nations worldwide to provide air defense and missile defense systems to Ukraine. These systems are crucial for safeguarding civilian populations, particularly children, from Russian daily deadly missile strikes, thereby protecting their lives and health. “Ukraine’s allies have sufficient air and missile defense resources that could be deployed to permanently or temporarily shield Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructures. Ukraine urgently needs these systems now! The cost of each delay is measured in the lives of Ukrainian civilians,” said UWC President Paul Grod. Ahead of the International Day for the Protection of Children...

Tatarstan, Kuban, Leningrad region… This is not a complete list of Russian territories where Ukrainian drones have recently started to fly, causing significant losses to the enemy. After all, their strikes hit both military economy facilities that provide Russia with high financial revenues and are involved in providing the Russian army with resources for combat operations (refineries, oil and gas terminals, oil storage facilities, etc.) and military targets. Ukrainian drones will fly beyond the Urals From January to April of this year alone, 48 facilities were damaged by Ukrainian airstrikes. Since January 2024, Ukrainian drone strikes have hit at least 29 oil, gas, and metallurgical facilities, oil terminals, and storage facilities; at least 19 military and defense facilities, including airfields in Russia. The geography of these strikes is expanding. From the...

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Over two years after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are still fighting valiantly. Two years on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still spewing baseless propaganda that my country, a country with a Jewish president and a thriving Jewish community, is a Nazi state. There is no more profound symbol to counteract this false portrayal than the recent completion of the Torah scroll of solidarity between Ukraine and Israel, with letters inscribed by their presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Isaac Herzog. This scroll will be a motivating force for the Ukrainian and Jewish communities to unify, closer than ever, to counter the old Soviet playbook and ensure that freedom prevails. But more must be done...

While the Kremlin is trying to link Ukraine to the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, the Islamic State (ISIS), specifically its Afghan branch known as ISIS-K, has claimed responsibility for the shooting at the concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region. The Islamic group calling itself the Khorasan State (ISIS-K), named after the old name of a region that included parts of Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014 and quickly gained a reputation for extreme brutality. Among the motives for this group to see Russia as its enemy, experts say Moscow’s involvement in the global fight against ISIS and its affiliates, especially through Russian military operations in Syria and its efforts to establish ties with the Afghan Taliban, ISIS-K’s rival on its territory...

At the invitation of Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Yaroslav Hunka went to Ottawa on 22 September 2023 to witness the visit of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. When The Jewish Daily Forward subsequently reported that Hunka had served in the 14 Waffen- Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1) – more commonly referred to as the Galicia Division – a controversy erupted. It continues to fester. Criminal vandalism against cemetery monuments to veterans of the Division has jacked up, even as Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine and Ukrainians has escalated. That is not a coincidence. Deplorably, some Canadians have bought into Soviet-era propaganda about the Galicia Division, as regurgitated by operatives of the Russian Federation and their fellow travellers in the West. That has only furthered the goals of a KGB campaign, known as Operation Payback, orchestrated to provoke tensions between the Jewish, Baltic and Ukrainian diasporas over what happened in eastern Europe during the Second World War...

The suggestion from Pope Francis that Ukraine should have the “courage” to raise the “white flag” and negotiate a settlement with (in other words, surrender to) Russia was deeply shocking for Kyiv and its backers. The understandably outraged response from Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was that the only flag Kyiv would raise was its own: the yellow and blue of Ukraine. Some may think that the pope’s words are inconsequential to how this war unfolds. It is not the first time Pope Francis has displayed overtly pro-Russian sympathies, nor has the Vatican’s mediation, for instance regarding the liberation of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia, been successful so far. So what if the pope speaks out again about the war, given that his views are already known and his practical efforts to address the humanitarian dimensions of the war...